Glaciers are no longer moving at glacial paces (82 ft per DAY)

[NickB79]

https://www.popsci.com/sliding-ice-cap-glacier

“I kept on seeing this other ice cap in the southern part of the scenes I was looking at via satellite,” says University of Colorado geologist Michael Willis. He was studying the Academy of Sciences Glacier, Russia’s largest, but what really caught his eye was the nearby Vavilov Ice Cap. It was doing something totally unexpected, he says: moving, and quickly. The ice cap—the term refers to a type of glacier, of which “polar ice cap” is a subset—is of a kind that’s supposed to be very stable. “This kind of ice cap shouldn’t be displaying this kind of behavior,” Willis says.

In this instance, though, the ice cap was practically galloping along: “surging” at a pace of 82 feet per day in 2015, as Willis and his colleagues found. Previously, its average speed was just about two inches per day. Using a combination of historic data from an earlier study, and data from two current satellite information systems, they traced the glacier’s movement and its degree of ice loss.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Cant be , rump says no such thing as climate change

I wish I could live long enough to see the deniers suffer their just result

[NNadir]

2. It rains on the just and the unjust alike.